Solar Radio Science Highlights

Tracing Ion-Scale Turbulence and Energy Cascade Rate from the Solar Corona to 1 au by E. P. Kontar et al.

2026-01-20

The solar corona and solar wind are turbulent plasma environments where energy transfer from large-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluctuations to smaller kinetic scales is thought to play a critical role in coronal heating and solar wind acceleration. Despite decades of research, the properties of turbulence at ion scales, where dissipation occurs, remain poorly constrained due to limited observational data. Moreover, the precise mechanisms that heat the corona, and accelerate and heat […]

Signatures of Confined and Eruptive Solar Flares in Microwave Spectra by E. W. Cliver et al.

2026-01-06

Solar flares are generally divided into two classes: eruptive flares (with associated coronal mass ejections; CMEs) and confined flares that lack CMEs. Because eruptive flares are the principal source of major space weather effects at Earth, relatively little attention was paid to confined flares until the great sunspot group of October 2014, designated NOAA 12192, passed across the solar disk giving rise to 35 large flares (29 “M” SXR-class and […]

A Wide-Band High-Frequency Type-II Solar Radio Burst by Vasanth et al.

2025-12-23

Type-II radio bursts are usually observed below 400 MHz with slowly-drifting narrow fundamental and/or harmonic bands. Events with starting frequencies higher than 400 MHz are rarely reported (e.g., Pohjolainen et al. 2008). Such high-frequency Type-IIs may stem from the CME interaction with surrounding dense structures in the corona, such as streamers, ray-like or loop structure, or from sources in the lower corona. Figure. 1. Dynamic spectrum of the high-frequency wide-band […]

First Robust Detection of Linear Polarization from Metric Solar Emissions: Challenging Established Paradigms by S. Dey et al.

2025-12-09

Polarization measurements of solar radio emissions are key diagnostics of coronal plasma, magnetic fields, and propagation effects, and can provide additional constraints on the emission mechanisms. At meter wavelengths, circular polarization (CP) has long been exploited in solar radio studies, while linear polarization (LP) has been assumed to be absent. This view arose from the expectations that strong coronal Faraday rotation would completely depolarize LP within typical observational bandwidths and […]

New Instrument in Solar Flare Detection: A 50–55 GHz Millimeter-Wave Radiometer Spectrometer by X. Xu et al.

2025-11-25

Solar flares, among the most intense explosive phenomena in the solar atmosphere, release vast amounts of energy in a short period, resulting in enhanced electromagnetic radiation across multiple bands. These events pose significant threats to Earth’s space environment and human activities in space. High-energy electrons accelerated during flares emit millimeter-wave radiation through gyrosynchrotron radiation, providing unique insights into the underlying magnetic fields and energy release processes (Fleishman et al 2018). […]

Multispacecraft Analysis and Modeling of Type III Radio Burst Exciter Deceleration in Inhomogeneous Heliospheric Plasma F. Azzolini et al.

2025-11-11

Electron beams accelerated in solar flares and escaping from the Sun along open magnetic field lines can trigger intense radio emissions known as type III solar radio bursts. However, the propagation dynamics of these electrons is still poorly understood and observationally constrained (Dulk et al 1987, Krupar et al 2015). Historically, single-spacecraft measurements have suggested deceleration but suffered from large uncertainties due to unknown source position. By leveraging four spacecraft […]

Noise in Maps of the Sun at Radio Wavelengths by T. S. Bastian et al.

2025-10-28

The Sun is a powerful source of radio emissions, so much so that – unlike most celestial sources – this emission dominates the system noise of many radio telescopes. The noise resulting from such sources is referred to as “self-noise”. Two recent papers discuss self-noise in maps of the Sun at radio frequencies formed using the techniques of Fourier synthesis imaging. Examples of radio telescopes that exploit this technique include […]

Connecting EUV Observations of Chromospheric Large-Scale Flows and their properties at particular heights using Nobeyama 17 GHz data: I. The differential rotation profile by S. Routh et al.

2025-10-14

The phenomenon of differential rotation in the Sun, described by Eq.1 where A is the equatorial rotation rate, A and C are latitudinal gradients and $\theta$ is latitude, is a cornerstone of solar dynamo theory. While helioseismology and feature tracking in optical and EUV wavelengths have helped map this profile at the surface and in the deep interior, ambiguity remains in the higher layers of the solar atmosphere, largely due […]

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